The Devils

'Judith Paris' (qv)'s character is referred to as Sister Agnes in the film but listed as Sister Judith in the credits.

Early in the movie when Urbain Grandier (Oliver Reed) is seen grooming his hair.

It is a close-up of him supposedly looking at a mirror in the upper left hand corner of the screen, behind the viewer.

Obviously there is no mirror as he consistently misses combing the more egregiously messed up parts of his hair and instead repeatedly combs the portions that are already groomed.

In fact when he is done, his hair is still messed up.

After viewing this film, I found the script to be overly ambitious. Autism, failing child protection, child sexuality, incest, self-mutilation, child abandonment, suicide, child imprisonment, child gangs,...

And I'm serious. Ken Russell's infamous masterpiece, "The Devils," focuses on a seventeenth century French village where a group of Ursuline nuns incite chaos, sacrilege, and full-blown Catholic hysteria after they accuse a local priest of witchcraft.

If people think they like to watch horror movies with some blood and guts and fear and grab the arm of their nearby seat mate, they're not going to like this. This one isn't your usual fun and games.

As the movie started I didn't think I'd make it through the whole thing: disturbing images, religion, 17th century. Nothing I'm particularly interested in (I downloaded the movie to watch Vanessa Redgrave, and oh she should have won 20 awards for this movie!

The Devils is, admittedly like Ken Russell's style itself, is not for all tastes, it is one of those films that you will be transfixed by straightaway or be repulsed by it. With me, it was the former and while Russell's style was a quite unique one to begin with The Devils is most likely unlike anything you've seen before.

For many centuries religions had power over body, mind and spirits of human beings. The power was dramatically reduced specially in West but still we see killing and all kind of torturing is going on in the name of god and Allah.

British cinemas gloriously impish, L'Enfant terrible, the blissfully audacious celluloid conjurer, Ken Russell, certainly outdid his vast, theatrical reach with his standalone, majestically mad masterpiece, 'The Devils'. This dangerously provocative, brutally uncompromising feature film is the extraordinarily powerful vision of a truly eccentric, cinematic iconoclast.

Director, Ken Russell's historical drama about womanizing priests, sex-crazed nuns, hypocrisy and hysteria in 17th-century France is a mixed bag for me. I find this nunspolitation film, somewhat smart and sophistical to watch, yet I didn't find it, that enjoyable, due to how much of a joke, it makes the historical events seem to be.

Just like film Caligula and Brazil which film establishment tried so hard to sideline from the mainstream of the film history.Sometimes they make films on the borderline what is acceptable not to be given X rating.